I was tempted to post this one myself a couple of weeks ago. I know in the short term this one probably wont be popular, having to resubmit practically every entry in the database. However I would like to see it implemented so we can more accurately profile our collections.

Do we really care a movie is 1:46:31.  I mean have you ever sat back and said, "Damn I can't watch this DVD it is 31 seconds longer than I have time for."  I know is for information and archiving purposes, I still don't see a need.  If we are going to add the seconds where will  it stop?  Do we include the milliseconds or the nanoseconds?  Lets just do it down to Planck's time which is 5.4 x 10^-44 seconds. or 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000054 seconds.  Yes I know this is an extreme, it is supposed to be.  I think down to the minute is plenty anymore and we are just adding unnecessary work for ourselves.

Quoting Lord Of The Sith:

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If we are going to add the seconds where will  it stop?

Movies usually have 24 frames per seconds, so we should be contend with x/24th of a second.

cya, Mithi (intoxicated)

Quoting Forget_the_Rest:

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If a film is 1:52:31 we enter it as 1:53 even though it's quite some way away from that time.

I don't believe I have ever heard 29 seconds refered to as being 'quite some away from' a specific time. 

As to the original request...rounding to the nearest minute is more than adequate.

Clearly not a popular request.

Oh well...I simply thought it would help to prevent ping-ponging profiles where people take the information off the box. I also thought that accuracy was the ultimate goal here.

Guess I was wrong.

Quoting Unicus69:

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I have a hard time believing that the average user cares about being that accurate.

Have you asked them?

Are you sure?

Or it that just your opinion on the subject?

How about looking at this sort of suggestion from the viewpoint of those that DO or MIGHT want the feature?

As for the ping-ponging - I see it a LOT. Not everyone reads the rules as carefully as forum members. A lot of contributions I see are taking information from the box.

Anyway - it's no biggie. I simply thought it might be something people would want and it's not a feature request I have seen come up.

To be able to calculate the original time for a PAL spedup movie it would be required to have the exact runtime, so count me in for accuraccy.

In addition a feature could be added which calculated the original time (by subtracting 4%) and showing this between brackets behind the DVD runtime.

Quoting skipnet50:

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I would also like to s Ken come up with a way to deal with the multiple runtimes which we see with some of the multi-version films.

Skip

Not to mention TV Series where you can have a good 4 to 8 episodes on a single disc!